Step up efforts to end TB by 2030 – PAHO/WHO

The Pan American Health Organization/World   Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is calling on countries in the Americas to step up efforts to detect and treat people with tuberculosis (TB), to bring the epidemic to an end in the region by 2030.

According to a PAHO/WHO press release issued yesterday, statistics released for 2013 reveal that more than 285,000 people